Corporate & Securities Law

A ?Principled? Approach to the Design of Telecommunications Policy

Posted on August 31, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dennis Weisman (Kansas State) provides A ?Principled? Approach to the Design of Telecommunications Policy. ABSTRACT: The Obama administration came into power championing a philosophical shift in regulatory and antitrust policy...

Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines

Posted on August 31, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dennis Carlton of the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business has a forthcoming paper worth reading on Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. ABSTRACT: The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission...

Competition Law Enforcement in the Television Broadcasting Sector in Hong Kong: Past Cases and Recent Controversies

Posted on August 31, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thomas K. Cheng, University of Hong Kong - Law has posted Competition Law Enforcement in the Television Broadcasting Sector in Hong Kong: Past Cases and Recent Controversies. ABSTRACT: This article reviews the competition law regime...

Slotting Allowances and Scarce Shelf Space

Posted on August 31, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Leslie M. Marx, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Economics Group and Greg Shaffer, University of Rochester - Simon Graduate School of Business have an interesting paper on Slotting Allowances and Scarce Shelf Space...

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LL.M. in Competition Law - What Program to Choose?

Posted on August 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol There is a discussion of LLM competition law programs at the LLM Guide website. Aaron Edlin (Berkeley) and Ioannos Lianos (UCL) offer their analysis as to why the field is hot and what students should...

Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright Holders: Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation

Posted on August 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hannobal Travis (FIU - Law) offer his thoughts on Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright Holders: Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation. ABSTRACT: Google Book Search (GBS) has captured the...

The Penguin and the Cartel: Rethinking Antitrust and Innovation Policy for the Age of Commercial Open Source

Posted on August 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Steohen Maurer (Berkeley - Goldman School of Public Policy) has a new paper on The Penguin and the Cartel: Rethinking Antitrust and Innovation Policy for the Age of Commercial Open Source. ABSTRACT: Modern open source...

Broadband Openness Rules Are Fully Justified by Economic Research

Posted on August 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nic Economides (NYU - Stern) argues that Broadband Openness Rules Are Fully Justified by Economic Research. ABSTRACT: This paper responds to arguments made in filings in the FCC?s broadband openness proceeding (GN Dkt. 09-191) and...

SOEs in China and Their Impact on Private Businesses

Posted on August 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This weekend I read an excellent work in progress by Wentong Zheng (University of Buffalo Law) on the Chinese AML and SOEs. It should go out to the law reviews soon. SOEs has been a...

Who gains and who loses from credit card payments?: theory and calibrations

Posted on August 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Scott Schuh, Oz Shy, Joanna Stavins (all Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) explain Who gains and who loses from credit card payments?: theory and calibrations. ABSTRACT: Merchant fees and reward programs generate an implicit monetary...

SSRN TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Antitrust: Antitrust Law & Policy eJournal June 30, 2010 to August 29, 2010

Posted on August 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Antitrust: Antitrust Law & Policy eJournal June 30, 2010 to August 29, 2010 Rank Downloads Paper Title 1...

The impact of competition on technology adoption: an apples-to-PCs analysis

Posted on August 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Adam Copeland and Adam Hale Shapiro describe The impact of competition on technology adoption: an apples-to-PCs analysis. ABSTRACT: We study the effect of market structure on a personal computer manufacturer?s decision to adopt new technology...

Managerial Incentives and Stackelberg Equilibria in Oligopoly

Posted on August 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marcella Scrimitore (University of Salento) has written on Managerial Incentives and Stackelberg Equilibria in Oligopoly. ABSTRACT: The paper investigates both quantity and price oligopoly games in markets with a variable number of managerial and entrepreneurial...

Bertrand-Edgeworth competition in an almost symmetric oligopoly

Posted on August 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Massimo A. De Francesco (Universita di Siena) and Neri Salvadori (Universita di Pisa) Bertrand-Edgeworth competition in an almost symmetric oligopoly. ABSTRACT: We analyze a Bertrand-Edgeworth game in homogeneous product industry, under effcient rationing, constant marginal...

Death by Market Power. Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service

Posted on August 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University and University of Bristol), Rodrigo Moreno-Serra (Imperial College), and Carol Propper (Imperial College, University of Bristol) have a new paper on Death by Market Power. Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes...

The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

Posted on August 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler, and John van Reenan (all Centre for Market and Public Organisation Bristol Institute of Public Affairs University of Bristol) explore The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from...

Joint Defense or Research Joint Venture? Reassessing the Patent-Challenge-Bloc's Antitrust Status

Posted on August 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joseph Scott Miller (Lewis & Clark Law) has posted Joint Defense or Research Joint Venture? Reassessing the Patent-Challenge-Bloc's Antitrust Status. ABSTRACT: A patent challenger who defeats a patent wins spoils that it must share with...

Public Monopoly and Economic Efficiency: Evidence from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's Entry Decisions

Posted on August 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Katja Seim (Wharton) and Joel Waldfogel (Wharton) have a paper on Public Monopoly and Economic Efficiency: Evidence from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's Entry Decisions. ABSTRACT: While private monopolists are generally assumed to maximize profits,...

English Court of Appeal?s Judgment in Cooper Tire and Ors v. Dow Deutschland and Ors

Posted on August 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ruchit Patel, Cleary Gottlieb explains English Court of Appeal?s Judgment in Cooper Tire and Ors v. Dow Deutschland and Ors. ABSTRACT: On July 23, 2010, the English Court of Appeal rejected an appeal brought by...

Horizontal Mergers of Online Firms: Structural Estimation and Competitive Effects

Posted on August 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yonghong An, Michael R. Baye, Yingyao Hu, John Morgan, and Matt Shum have an interesting new paper on Horizontal Mergers of Online Firms: Structural Estimation and Competitive Effects. ABSTRACT: This paper (1) presents a general...

Competition Among Mass Media

Posted on August 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maksymilian Kwiek (University of Southampton) addresses Competition Among Mass Media. ABSTRACT: This paper investigates how mass media provide information to readers or viewers who have diverse interests. The problem of a mass medium comes from...

The Supreme Court Invalidates State Restriction on Federal Class Actions in Shady Grove v. Allstate

Posted on August 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Aidan Synnott, Paul, Weiss & Daniel Crane, Univ. of Michigan explain how The Supreme Court Invalidates State Restriction on Federal Class Actions in Shady Grove v. Allstate. ABSTRACT: The United States Supreme Court recently held...

Dukes v Wal-Mart Stores: En Banc Ninth Circuit Lowers the Bar for Class Certification and Creates Circuit Splits in Approving Largest Class Action Ever Certified

Posted on August 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Donald Falk, Archis Parasharami, & Marcia Goodman (Mayer Brown) explore Dukes v Wal-Mart Stores: En Banc Ninth Circuit Lowers the Bar for Class Certification and Creates Circuit Splits in Approving Largest Class Action Ever Certified...

Posted Pricing as a Plus Factor

Posted on August 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joe Harrington (Johns Hopkins - Econ) discusses Posted Pricing as a Plus Factor. ABSTRACT: This paper identifies conditions under which an industry-wide practice of posted (or list) pricing is a plus factor sufficient to conclude...

Strategic Collusion in Auctions with Externalities

Posted on August 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Omer Biran (CEREMADE - CEntre de REcherches en MAthématiques de la DEcision - CNRS : UMR7534 - Université Paris Dauphine - Paris IX) addresses Strategic Collusion in Auctions with Externalities. ABSTRACT: We study a first...

The End of the Monopoly of Peer Review

Posted on August 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Is peer review going the way of the dodo? The NY Times reports on some changes in the humanities. See here. HT: Javier Tapia

Recent Developments In Antitrust Class Actions in the United Kingdom

Posted on August 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Robert O?Donoghue, Brick Court Chambers discusses Recent Developments In Antitrust Class Actions in the United Kingdom. ABSTRACT: Somewhat fitful attempts at promoting antitrust damages litigation have taken place in the EU in the last several...

Online Advertising: Defining Relevant Markets

Posted on August 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol James D. Ratliff (Compass Lexecon) and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (Berkeley Law) discuss Online Advertising: Defining Relevant Markets. ABSTRACT: This paper provides an overview of the development of Internet advertising. We offer a broad overview of...

Department of Justice and USDA Announce Agenda for August 27 Livestock Workshop in Colorado

Posted on August 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Department of Justice and USDA Announce Agenda for August 27 Livestock Workshop in Colorado 8:30 a.m - 8:45 a.m. MDT Opening Remarks Eric Holder, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture,...

Pitfalls in vertical arrangements

Posted on August 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gianpaolo Rossini and Cecilia Verga (both Bologna - Economics) describe Pitfalls in vertical arrangements. ABSTRACT: A popular way of obtaining essential inputs requires the establishment of an input production joint venture (IPJV) in the upstream...

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